Written Answers Thursday 23 June 2005

Scottish Executive

Animal Welfare

Dr Elaine Murray (Dumfries) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what current legislation applies to the protection of circus animals.

Ross Finnie: The Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912 and the Performing Animals (Regulation) Act 1925.

Animal Welfare

Dr Elaine Murray (Dumfries) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what sections of the draft Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Bill apply to circus animals.

Ross Finnie: The draft bill makes no distinction between circus and other animals. The animal health provisions in part 1 of the bill will apply to any circus animal which is susceptible to one of the listed diseases. All of the animal welfare provisions in part 2 of the bill will apply to circus animals as long as they meet the definition of "animal" in section 14.

Apprenticeships

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus are undertaking modern apprenticeships, broken down also by sector.

Allan Wilson: The number of modern apprentices broken down by sector and geographical area is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. This information is not held centrally.

British-Irish Council

Jeremy Purvis (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will report on the outcome of the British-Irish Council summit held in Douglas, Isle of Man on 20 May 2005.

Mr Jim Wallace: On 20 May 2005, the Isle of Man hosted the seventh British–Irish Council (BIC) Summit in Douglas, attended by myself and Mr Andy Kerr MSP, Minister for Health and Community Care. The focus of the summit was telemedicine, on which the Isle of Man takes the lead in the council.

  The council recognised the strong potential of telemedicine to modernise the delivery of health and social care and highlighted both the common challenges BIC Members face in this area, and the mutual benefits of exchanging experience and best practice. The council discussed the opportunities which telemedicine offers to address health and social care issues affecting BIC administrations. Such issues include support for rural and remote communities and challenges in meeting demand for consultant and expert advice. It was also noted at the meeting that successful implementation of telemedicine in all BIC administrations relies on investment in the associated information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure.

  The summit recognised that patient confidence is a significant factor in fully realising the benefits of telemedicine and the Scottish delegation fully supported the proposal that BIC Members co-operate in examining relevant issues including the safe and secure electronic transfer of patient data/records and effective ways of ensuring that telemedicine and e-health information from the internet can be quality assured.

  As with previous summits, the meeting also received progress reports and agreed a plan for future work on the other subjects being taken forward by council members. These are Drugs, Environment, Knowledge Economy, Minority and Lesser–Used Languages, Tourism, Transport and Social Inclusion.

  I am placing a copy of the Communiqué issued by the British–Irish Council after the summit meeting in Douglas in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 36855)

Cultural Commission

Christine May (Central Fife) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cultural Commission, undertaking the review of culture in Scotland, will submit its report to ministers.

Patricia Ferguson: I can tell you that, today, I have received the Cultural Commission’s final report. Copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 36838). At the launch of our Cultural Policy Statement, on 22 April 2004, ministers announced that the Cultural Commission would start work on 1 June 2004, to undertake a comprehensive review of cultural provision in Scotland.

  The commission’s remit gave it headline tasks to: "explore the notion of cultural rights for the Scottish citizen, and those of its creative community and define how these might be translated into a scheme of entitlements", and "redefine the institutional infrastructure and governance of the Scottish cultural sector to enable it to deliver the entitlements that spring from rights".

  I know that the Parliament and the cultural community, which engaged so fully and enthusiastically with the review, have been eagerly awaiting the commission’s findings. I have therefore asked the commission to publish its report for general consumption today.

  I welcome the completion of the report. The Executive believes in the centrality of culture to Scotland’s success and the well-being of its citizens and I look forward to considering opportunities for boosting public access to culture that truly is excellent. I note that, in direct response to its remit, the commission has backed "cultural rights". It also recommends infrastructure change. Over the coming months we shall consider in detail the broad range of issues and recommendations discussed by the commission and, later this year, we shall have a parliamentary debate on the way ahead for Scotland’s culture.

European Union

Richard Lochhead (North East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it intends to take to help to bring Europe closer to the people of Scotland following the rejection of the EU Constitution in France and the Netherlands.

Mr Tom McCabe: Scottish ministers will continue to highlight the benefits for Scotland of EU membership and to work with the UK Government and through REGLEG for the introduction of measures to bring the EU closer to its citizens.

Fire Service

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) railway and (b) aircraft accidents were attended by the fire service in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Hugh Henry: Full statistics relating to railway and aircraft incidents attended by the Fire and Rescue Service are only available for the years 1999-2000 to 2003-04 and are as set out in the following tables.

  Total Fires

  

 
Railways
Aircraft


Year
Trains
Buildings
Other
Total


2003-04
6
11
1
18
4


2002-03
19
14
1
34
4


2001-02
6
15
0
21
7


2000-01
16
16
0
32
3


1999-2000
9
13
0
22
3



  Total Special Service (i.e. Non-Fire) Incidents

  

 
Incidents


Year
Rail
Aircraft


2003-04
8
8


2002-03
6
6


2001-02
8
6


2000-01
12
3


1999-2000
6
9



  Aircraft totals exclude occasions when the Fire and Rescue Service was called to an airfield but did not require to take any action, for instance if an aircraft reported technical problems in the air but was able to land safely.

Health

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what plans are in place to instigate research into any correlation between the level of diagnosis of (a) cancer and (b) respiratory diseases and the proximity of communities to open-cast coal mines.

Mr Andy Kerr: The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) has considered two major reports on respiratory ill health for people living close to opencast coal mines. On the first of these, The Acute Effects of Air Pollution on the Respiratory Health of Children in West Glamorgan  (1998), COMEAP concluded that the study "did not support the assertion that asthma was more common in an area close to an opencast coal mine than in areas distant from such industry". On the second Do particulates from opencast coal mining impair children’s respiratory health ’ (1999) the committee concluded that "it is most unlikely that open cast sites would have any long-term effects on the health of local communities". COMEAP recommended that as a precautionary measure, the modifications to the planning process suggested by the authors of this study be considered by the relevant planning authorities and be incorporated in minerals planning guidance.

  The Scottish Executive Health Department is not aware of any credible evidence or rationale for an increase in the risk of cancer for communities close to opencast sites.

  The Scottish Executive therefore has no plans to instigate further research in these areas.

Health Promotion

Bruce Crawford (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how much was paid out from the Breakfast Service Challenge Fund from 2001-02 to 2004-05.

Malcolm Chisholm: There was one Breakfast Service Challenge Fund between 2001-02 and 2004-05. The total fund of £300,000 was allocated to 23 local authorities.

Historic Sites

Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what support it will give to Roman heritage sites.

Patricia Ferguson: Historic Scotland, on behalf of Scottish ministers, protects nationally important Roman sites, provides grant aid and negotiates management agreements for their care and maintenance. Twenty Roman sites are managed directly by Historic Scotland as properties in state care.

Housing

Maureen Macmillan (Highlands and Islands) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the second home market has on the affordability of houses in the Highlands and Islands.

Malcolm Chisholm: Communities Scotland will shortly publish new research on second homes in Scotland.

  The research found that there is a complex mix of demand and supply issues operating at ward and below ward level, which impacts on house prices. From case study areas the research found that second homes can be a feature of demand at a very local level such as specific settlements, but other forms of demand are also significant, such as in-migration from commuters, or people retiring to these areas.

Housing

Karen Whitefield (Airdrie and Shotts) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in establishing a licensing scheme for non-traditional housing.

Johann Lamont: A licensing scheme would approve repair methods that will make non-traditional houses acceptable to lenders for mortgage security purposes. Communities Scotland and the Development Department are working with lenders and the Building Research Establishment on the scope to identify suitable repair methods and establish such a scheme.

  Arrangements are in hand to work with North Lanarkshire Council to develop an approach for houses of a particular type in its area, which can then be applied in other circumstances.

Land Ownership

Rob Gibson (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many small landholders there are, as defined by the Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911, broken down by county.

Ross Finnie: The Scottish Executive does not hold information on such holdings in existence today.

Livestock

Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are being taken to reduce the level of Johne’s disease in cattle.

Ross Finnie: The Scottish Executive recognises the importance of Johne’s disease to the livestock industry and funds a significant programme of research into the disease epidemiology, bacteriology and immunology at the Moredun Research Institute and the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC).

  Following work commissioned from SAC, the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD) issued an advisory leaflet on the control and management of the disease to all dairy farmers last September. More detailed guidance, being developed with the livestock industry, will be issued shortly.

  As part of the GB Surveillance Group of the Diseases and Infections of Animals, SEERAD will be involved in a forthcoming study to determine the prevalence of Johnes in the UK.

NHS Funding

Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16686 by Mr Andy Kerr on 1 June 2005, whether the level of funding for NHS Argyll and Clyde will be calculated under the existing Arbuthnott formula or will be re-assessed to take account of the 26 islands in the board area, prior to any responsibility for health services being transferred to NHS Highland.

Mr Andy Kerr: The level of funding allocated to a health board by the Arbuthnott formula reflects the board’s relative need for health care. The Arbuthnott formula includes an adjustment to take into account the additional costs of delivering health care in remote and rural areas.

  Any changes to the population of any board area brought about by the redrawing of NHS board boundaries would be reflected in a revised calculation which would ensure that the level of funding each new board receives reflects the relative health care needs of the new board’s resident population. This would be calculated on the basis of the existing Arbuthnott formula i.e. there will be no re-assessment to take account of the 26 islands in Argyll and Clyde.

  Additionally, the NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee was set-up earlier this year to improve and refine the Arbuthnott formula. Among other aspects of the formula, the committee is planning to consider how remoteness is addressed.

Pre-School Education

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what its reasons are for funding nursery education to a maximum of 33 weeks, given that the school year is 39 weeks.

Euan Robson: Local authorities currently have a statutory duty to provide a minimum of 412 and a half hours of pre-school education per year for all eligible three and four-year-olds whose parents wish it, and funding is provided to local authorities for this purpose through grant aided expenditure. The minimum number of hours that make up a part-time, pre-school education place was set a number of years ago, prior to devolution, and has remained unchanged in recent years. Local authorities can if they so decide, add to the minimum.

  Ministers are keeping the provision of free pre-school education in Scotland under review.

Prison Service

Dr Sylvia Jackson (Stirling) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made on ending slopping out in prisons.

Cathy Jamieson: We have made a very significant investment in the Prison Estate over the last few years to create an estate that is "fit for purpose" in the 21st Century.

  In the last two years, we have ended slopping out in four of Scotland’s prisons, including two of our largest prisons, HM Prison Barlinnie and HM Prison Edinburgh, and work in continuing to eradicate this undesirable practice.

Prison Service

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many children aged under 16 have been detained in each public sector prison in each of the last six years; how old they were; how long they were detained; what the reasons were for their detention, and why they were detained in prison rather than an establishment for children.

The Executive have supplied the following corrected answer:

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

  Details of All Under 16s who Were Held in a Scottish Penal Establishment, 2004

  

 
Number of Individuals
Individuals Aged 14
Individuals Aged 15
Total number of Days or Part Days


Barlinnie 
7
2
5
18


Cornton Vale 
1
1
0
4


Dumfries 
1
0
1
5


Edinburgh 
1
0
1
15


Greenock 
2
0
2
5


Polmont 
16
3
13
445



  Details of all Under 16s who Were Held in a Scottish Penal Establishment, 2003

  

 
Number of Individuals
Individuals Aged 14
Individuals Aged 15
Total number of Days or Part Days


Barlinnie 
9
4
5
10


Cornton Vale 
1
0
1
10


Dumfries 
2
0
2
22


Edinburgh 
1
0
1
3


Greenock 
3
1
2
31


Inverness 
1
0
1
6


Perth 
1
0
1
7


Polmont 
15
5
10
221



  Details of all Under 16s who Were Held in a Scottish Penal Establishment, 2002

  

 
Number of Individuals
Individuals Aged 14
Individuals Aged 15
Total Number of Days or Part Days


Barlinnie 
13
0
13
20


Aberdeen 
1
0
1
8


Cornton Vale 
2
1
1
18


Dumfries 
1
0
1
2


Edinburgh 
1
0
1
6


Greenock 
2
0
2
11


Perth 
4
0
4
16


Polmont 
16
0
16
360



  Details of All Under 16s who Were Held in a Scottish Penal Establishment, 2001

  

 
Number of Individuals
Individuals Aged 14
Individuals Aged 15
Total Number of Days or Part Days


Barlinnie 
3
0
3
3


Aberdeen 
1
1
0
5


Cornton Vale 
1
0
1
1


Edinburgh 
1
0
1
9


Greenock 
6
0
6
88


Inverness 
1
0
1
22


Perth 
1
0
1
2


Polmont 
9
1
8
112



  Details of all Under 16s who Were Held in a Scottish Penal Establishment, 2000

  

 
Number of Individuals
Individuals Aged 14
Individuals Aged 15
Total Number of Days or Part Days


Barlinnie 
9
3
6
22


Dumfries 
1
0
1
15


Edinburgh 
2
1
1
9


Longriggend 
2
0
2
98


Perth 
1
0
1
8


Polmont 
8
4
4
102



  Details of all Under 16s who Were Held in a Scottish Penal Establishment, 1999

  

 
Number of Individuals
Individuals Aged 14
Individuals Aged 15
Total Number of Days or Part Days


Barlinnie 
3
0
3
9


Greenock 
1
0
1
11


Longriggend 
6
0
6
87


Perth 
4
1
3
41


Polmont 
2
0
2
50

Public Sector

Des McNulty (Clydebank and Milngavie) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the targets set for efficiency savings can only be fully met through privatisation.

Mr Tom McCabe: No. Our plans for efficiency savings up to 2007-08 do not require privatisation for our targets to be met.

Regulation of Care

Donald Gorrie (Central Scotland) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that support organisations, which are in the process of appeal in relation to their registration with the Care Commission, are not deprived of local authority funding for services as a result of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (Payments Out of Grants for Housing Support Services) Amendment Order 2005 whilst the appeal process is on-going.

Malcolm Chisholm: The order requires providers of housing support services which are also care services and which are paid by a local authority out of grants provided by the Scottish ministers under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, to be registered under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001.

  Under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 and its associated regulations, those service providers who are deemed to be registered with the Care Commission will continue to be deemed to be registered until an appeal is decided. Supporting People funding should not therefore be withdrawn in those circumstances, ahead of a decision on the appeal.

Roads

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-9902 by Sarah Boyack on 5 October 2000, how many claims for compensation for damage to vehicles and injuries to passengers and pedestrians caused by dangerous and/or poorly maintained trunk roads and motorways there have been in each of the last four years and what the total value was of such claims.

Nicol Stephen: The number and volume of claims for compensation for damage to vehicles and injuries to passengers and pedestrians on trunk roads and motorways in each of the last four years is as follows:

  

Financial Year
No of Claims
No of Compensation Payments Made
Total Value


2000-01
198
55
£89,504


2001-02
350
61
£648,077


2002-03
317
120
£368,555


2003-04
298
122
£190,465



  The 3,200 kilometre trunk and motorway road network is inspected regularly and is well maintained.

Roads

Alasdair Morgan (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make an assessment of the possibility of installing a light-controlled pedestrian crossing on the A75 in Springholm, Kirkcudbrightshire.

Nicol Stephen: The Scottish Executive commissioned Amey Infrastructure Services in November 2004 to carry out an assessment for the provision of a pedestrian crossing on the A75 trunk road through Springholm.

  The study concluded that, as the level of pedestrian activity is low and pedestrians are able to cross the road in relative safety with minimal waiting time, there is no justification at this time for the provision of a formalised pedestrian crossing. However, the situation at Springholm will be reviewed should additional demand become evident.

Scottish Executive Correspondence

Mike Pringle (Edinburgh South) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is on responding to correspondence from Scottish MPs on devolved matters and whether any agreement exists with UK government departments to achieve consistent handling of correspondence.

Ms Margaret Curran: It is Scottish Executive policy that all letters from MPs or MSPs on devolved matters are seen and replied to by ministers. Those that relate to operational matters are replied to by the Scottish Executive Agency concerned.

  No agreement exists with UK Government departments. It is for the UK Government to decide on how it handles correspondence addressed to it.

Scottish Executive Funding

Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15336 by Patricia Ferguson on 15 April 2005, in light of its news release on 30 March 2004 pledging £12.2 million of Executive funding for the Action Plan for Youth Football project and further to the answer to question S2W-13631 by Patricia Ferguson on 31 January 2005 indicating that the Executive would provide only £1.2 million towards the project with the remaining balance of £11 million coming from various lottery sources, whether lottery funding was announced as Executive funding in the news release and, if so, whether it will investigate (a) on how many occasions, (b) when, (c) to what monetary value and (d) for what purpose lottery funding has been announced as "Scottish Executive" or "Scottish Government" funding.

Patricia Ferguson: The Scottish Executive news release of 30 March 2004 announced the launch of the Scottish Football Association’s Action Plan for Youth Football, with support from the Scottish Executive. The news release and my answer to question S2W-13631 on 31 January 2005 made it clear that the £12.2 million Action Plan will be funded from £1.2 million of Exchequer funding, with the balance of £11 million coming from Lottery Funds, over 10 years.

  In preparing the reply to question S2W-15336, my officials canvassed Scottish Executive Departmental Lottery contacts who identified no examples of Lottery funds being announced as Scottish Executive or Scottish Government funding.

  All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Scottish Executive Funding

Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West) (Ind): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will continue to provide core funding to rape crisis centres after 2005-06.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Executive funds rape crisis centres in Scotland under the Rape Crisis Specific Fund. This fund, like the Domestic Abuse Service Development Fund and Violence Against Women Service Development Fund, runs until 31 March 2006.

  We are conducting a strategic review of all funding supporting violence against women services and wish to ensure that decisions for 2006 onwards make best use of available resources and focus on agreed priorities for action. The review is being undertaken in conjunction with the National Group to Address Violence Against Women and in consultation with stakeholders. We will make an announcement on the way forward once this review process is complete.

Smoking

Mr Duncan McNeil (Greenock and Inverclyde) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what steps education authorities are taking to prohibit smoking in and around school buildings and grounds.

Peter Peacock: Robust smoke-free policies are in place across Scottish schools. It is a matter for individual authorities and schools to determine whether smoke-free status extends to school grounds as well as school buildings.

Sport

Margo MacDonald (Lothians) (Ind): To ask the Scottish Executive how many community-based sports organisations and clubs have made applications for funding to Futurebuilders Scotland.

Patricia Ferguson: Fourteen community-based sport organisations have made applications for funding to Futurebuilders Scotland, which is operated by Communities Scotland.

Sport

Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West) (Ind): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15209 by Patricia Ferguson on 12 April 2005, whether it will now announce its decision on the relocation of  sportscotland.

Tavish Scott: An announcement will be made soon on the relocation of  sportscotland.

Statistics

Linda Fabiani (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether information is collected centrally in respect of the number of fatalities occurring from road traffic accidents where the fatality is not reported in the STATS 19 returns but subsequently noted by the General Register Office.

Nicol Stephen: There is no specific collection of such information. However, each year, the General Register Office for Scotland (GRO[S]) obtains, from the Scottish Executive, information about each road accident fatality recorded in the Stats 19 returns. GRO(S) matches this to its own data, in order to improve (where possible) the quality of the information held in its records. The Stats 19 and GRO(S) figures are not expected to agree exactly, because of differences between the definitions used for the two sets of statistics. Differences in definitions and the limits on the information available for matching the Stats 19 and GRO(S) data mean that it is not feasible to determine the precise number of fatalities occurring from road traffic accidents where the fatality is not reported as such in the Stats 19 returns but subsequently noted by the General Register Office.

Transport

Mr David Davidson (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16672 by Nicol Stephen on 3 June 2005, what exact role it envisages for Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT), as distinct from that planned for the proposed West of Scotland Regional Transport Partnership, in light of the commitment made to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport on 16 June 2004 that "I still expect SPT to have a direct role in the management and development of rail services in the west of Scotland." ( Official Report c. 9099).

Nicol Stephen: The role envisaged for Strathclyde Passenger Transport is the same as that proposed for the West of Scotland Regional Transport Partnership.

  I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-15923 on 5 May 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Waste Disposal

Shiona Baird (North East Scotland) (Green): To ask the Scottish Executive what the difference is between preliminary treatment and primary treatment in respect of the discharge of sewage.

Lewis Macdonald: Preliminary treatment involves the screening and de-gritting of sewage prior to discharge. Screening removes larger solid materials contained in the flow and de-gritting ensures that the outflow does not become blocked through time. Primary treatment of sewage effluent follows the same screening and de-gritting process with a period of settlement. The settlement process allows finer suspended material to settle out prior to discharge.

Waste Disposal

Shiona Baird (North East Scotland) (Green): To ask the Scottish Executive how preliminary treatment of sewage can be considered an appropriate treatment, given that it is not referred to in the Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s Policy Number 28 - Initial Dilution and Mixing Zones for Discharges from Coastal and Estuarine Outfalls .

Lewis Macdonald: As the independent regulator, it is a matter for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to determine the conditions for a Consent to Discharge. SEPA’s Policy 28 prescribes the dilution standards that SEPA expects new or modified sewage discharges, serving more than 100 population equivalent, to achieve. The same policy also makes provision for exceptions where the discharger can demonstrate to SEPA’s satisfaction that the costs associated with complying with these standards are excessive in relation to environmental benefit.

Young People

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-7034 by Allan Wilson on 9 June 2005, whether it will provide a breakdown of the status of the 35,000 16 to 19-year-olds not in education, training or employment by (a) local enterprise company area and (b) local authority area.

Allan Wilson: Further to the answer to question S2O-7034 on 9 June 2005 Table 1 gives the number of 16 to 19-year-olds not in education, training or employment by economic status for each Local Enterprise Company area. Table 2 gives the number of 16 to 19-year-olds not in education, training or employment by economic status for each local authority area.

  The Labour Force Survey figures shown in Tables 1 and 2 are above the Office for National Statistics reliability thresholds. ONS calculate reliability thresholds based on sample sizes in each local authority area. In general the smaller local authority areas had larger enhancements in the boosted LFS. This means that estimates of Not In Education, Employment or Training (NEET) cannot be produced for some of the larger local authority areas such as Edinburgh and Fife, but reliable estimates for smaller local authority areas such as Angus and Argyll and Bute can be produced.

  Table 1 Number of 16 to 19-Year-Olds Not in Education, Employment or Training by Economic Status for Each Local Enterprise Company Area, 2003

  

 
Inactive
Unemployed
Total


Scotland
13,000
2,2000
35,000


Argyll and Islands Enterprise
**
**
**


Scottish Enterprise Dumfries and Galloway
**
**
**


Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire
**
**
**


Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire
**
**
3,000


Scottish Enterprise Fife
**
**
**


Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley
**
**
1,000


Scottish Enterprise Glasgow
**
**
6,000


Scottish Enterprise Grampian
**
**
**


Inverness and Nairn Enterprise
**
**
**


Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise
**
**
**


Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise
**
**
**


Western Isles Enterprise
**
**
**


Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire
**
**
7,000


Lochaber Enterprise
**
**
**


Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian
**
**
5,000


Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Enterprise
**
**
1,000


Orkney Enterprise
**
**
**


Scottish Enterprise Renfrewshire
**
**
**


Ross and Cromarty Enterprise
**
**
**


Scottish Enterprise Borders
**
**
**


Scottish Enterprise Tayside
**
**
**


Shetland Enterprise
**
**
**



  Notes:

  1. Estimates are rounded to the nearest thousand.

  2. The total may not equal the sum of the individual components due to rounding.

  ** Estimate is below reliability threshold as defined by the Office for National Statistics

  Table 2 Number of 16 to 19-Year-Olds Not in Education, Employment or Training by Economic Status for Each Local Authority Area, 2003

  

 
Inactive
Unemployed
Total


Scotland
13,000
22,000
35,000


Aberdeen City
**
**
**


Aberdeenshire
**
**
**


Angus
**
**
1,000


Argyll and Bute
**
**
1,000


Scottish Borders, The
**
**
1,000


Clackmannanshire
**
**
**


West Dunbartonshire
**
**
1,000


Dumfries and Galloway
**
**
**


Dundee City
**
**
**


East Ayrshire
**
**
1,000


East Dunbartonshire
**
**
1,000


East Lothian
**
**
**


East Renfrewshire
**
**
1,000


Edinburgh, City of
**
**
**


Falkirk
**
**
**


Fife
**
**
**


Glasgow City
**
**
6,000


Highland
**
**
**


Inverclyde
**
**
1,000


Midlothian
**
**
1,000


Moray
**
**
**


North Ayrshire
1,000
1,000
1,000


North Lanarkshire
**
**
4,000


Orkney Islands
**
**
**


Perth and Kinross
**
**
**


Renfrewshire
**
**
**


Shetland Islands
**
**
**


South Ayrshire
1,000
1,000
1,000


South Lanarkshire
**
**
**


Stirling
**
**
1,000


West Lothian
**
**
**


Eilean Siar (Western Isles)
**
**
**



  Notes:

  1. Estimates are rounded to the nearest thousand.

  2. The total may not equal the sum of the individual components due to rounding.

  ** Estimate is below reliability threshold as defined by the Office for National Statistics.